Sample Projects

1) Collection of light intensities at remote sites across the US.
Continuous simultaneous collection from multiple sites over several days.
2) Turn on a remote sound source and take a sample using JAVA oscilloscope.
 
4) Remote collection of radioactive decay data (JAVA applet).
Potential for semester long decay experiments.
5) Remote data collection for advanced lab class (ELF/ULF project)
Multiple students simultaneously collect data from antennas located at a remote listening post.
6) Remote oscilloscope
Computer science students tell a remote computer to send a digital signal of their choice. They capture and analyze the signal using a JAVA oscilloscope.
7) FFT sound labs for introductory calculus based lab class:
Part one: LabPro is attached to local computer with microphone. Students bring instruments to make sound samples and use Excel to analyze samples.
Part two: Students change one cell in Excel to sample and analyze an "unknown" source located at a remote site.

Can we do this using even less equipment? YES:

1) By using a sound card as A/D device we can avoid using a serial port device altogether. A simple piece of software on a computer at the data collection site communicates between TCP/IP and the sound card. The sound card can be accessed, programmed and used as a data collection device from 30 lines of code in an Excel macro at the remote client side. The TCP2SoundCard software and Excel macro are available from us for free.
 
TCP2SoundCard software available from us (RIGHT CLICK and 'Save Target As' to download this Excel spreadsheet with VB macro).


2) Site player (http://www.siteplayer.com/)  is essentially a chip with a web server built in and connections to a serial port and TCP/IP. It does not use a full operation system. Because this device cannot be programed from the web server side it cannot be hacked. Such Internet appliances are inherently more secure than a full operating system. We are investigating this device as a simple TCP/IP to serial pass through device which would eliminate the necessity for a computer at the data collection side entirely using our techniques.

3) It might be possible to do the same thing with a Jet Direct box currently used to put printers on line. We have not investigated this yet. Other 'Internet Appliances' might similarly be controlled using JAVA or a VB macro if the device interprets TCP/IP protocal.


 

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